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Redistricting — the redrawing of maps for congressional, legislative and local seats — happens every ten years after the Census. Its goal? To make sure everyone is represented equally. In 2008, California voters took redistricting for state offices away from the Legislature — which often drew maps to the...
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Nació en el Bronx, Nueva York, un hijo de una pareja de inmigrantes jamaiquinos que llegó a los Estados Unidos llevando dentro de su modesto equipaje el espíritu del sueño americano. El joven de cabello rizado que admitió nunca ser un estudiante ejemplar, protagonizó sin embargo una carrera meteórica...
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La devoción a la Virgen de Regla se dio a conocer en América durante la colonización, especialmente en Brasil y Cuba, con el paso de los siglos su veneración se ha difundido en los cinco continentes. Miles de creyentes dan fe de los milagros que han sido obtenidos a...
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Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services Muslim, Asian and Latina women are the main victims of xenophobic attacks in the United States during an increase in hate crimes against immigrants. The phenomenon, said experts convened by Ethnic Media Services, reflects the fact that marginalized groups end up being the scapegoat...
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Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services On the same day that marked the last pandemic-related extension for filing taxes, IRS officials briefed ethnic media reporters about another major benefit under the American Rescue Plan — the expansion of the Advance Child Tax Credit. One of the most widely used tax credits...
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SEATTLE – Las conversaciones constructivas en línea pueden parecer pocas y espaciadas. Una investigación de la Universidad de Washington explora cómo el diseño de los sitios de redes sociales afecta los desacuerdos. Amanda Baughan, estudiante de doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación e Ingeniería de la Universidad de Washington,...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk When Seattle’s new sports and concert arena opened its doors to the public in October 2021, many were left scratching heads as to what the heck the building’s name was about. It turns out that hometown e-commerce juggernaut Amazon bought the naming rights...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This week, both Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are taking action to combat a class of so-called “forever chemicals” called Perfluorinated and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) found in thousands of consumer products, but environmental groups say change isn’t coming fast enough. On Tuesday October 19th, Sen. Alex...
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PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, Alaska –Just east of the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska sits Prince William Sound: an inlet full of tidewater glaciers spanning 3,800 miles of coastline and flanked by the jagged Chugach Mountains. Home to several species of salmon and other fish, commercial fishing has been...
Redistricting — the redrawing of maps for congressional, legislative and local seats — happens every ten years after the Census. Its goal? To make sure everyone is represented equally. In 2008, California voters took redistricting for state offices away from the Legislature — which often drew maps to the...
Nació en el Bronx, Nueva York, un hijo de una pareja de inmigrantes jamaiquinos que llegó a los Estados Unidos llevando dentro de su modesto equipaje el espíritu del sueño americano. El joven de cabello rizado que admitió nunca ser un estudiante ejemplar, protagonizó sin embargo una carrera meteórica...
La devoción a la Virgen de Regla se dio a conocer en América durante la colonización, especialmente en Brasil y Cuba, con el paso de los siglos su veneración se ha difundido en los cinco continentes. Miles de creyentes dan fe de los milagros que han sido obtenidos a...
Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services Muslim, Asian and Latina women are the main victims of xenophobic attacks in the United States during an increase in hate crimes against immigrants. The phenomenon, said experts convened by Ethnic Media Services, reflects the fact that marginalized groups end up being the scapegoat...
Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services On the same day that marked the last pandemic-related extension for filing taxes, IRS officials briefed ethnic media reporters about another major benefit under the American Rescue Plan — the expansion of the Advance Child Tax Credit. One of the most widely used tax credits...
SEATTLE – Las conversaciones constructivas en línea pueden parecer pocas y espaciadas. Una investigación de la Universidad de Washington explora cómo el diseño de los sitios de redes sociales afecta los desacuerdos. Amanda Baughan, estudiante de doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación e Ingeniería de la Universidad de Washington,...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk When Seattle’s new sports and concert arena opened its doors to the public in October 2021, many were left scratching heads as to what the heck the building’s name was about. It turns out that hometown e-commerce juggernaut Amazon bought the naming rights...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This week, both Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are taking action to combat a class of so-called “forever chemicals” called Perfluorinated and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) found in thousands of consumer products, but environmental groups say change isn’t coming fast enough. On Tuesday October 19th, Sen. Alex...
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, Alaska –Just east of the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska sits Prince William Sound: an inlet full of tidewater glaciers spanning 3,800 miles of coastline and flanked by the jagged Chugach Mountains. Home to several species of salmon and other fish, commercial fishing has been...